First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 60% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 10 October 2062 at 10:27 UTC.
The moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2062 after 6 days on 18 October 2062 at 08:18.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1923".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 776 of Meeus index or 1729 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours and 45 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠54.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠86.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 03:14 about 11 days since last perigee on 29 September 2062 at 03:19 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 24 October 2062 at 12:04 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 404 271 km (251 202 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2062. It is 1 137 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 220 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
9 days after descending node on 1 October 2062 at 12:54 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 October 2062 at 19:12 in ♓ Pisces.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 8 October 2062 at 21:13 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.620° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.544° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 October 2062 at 22:10 in ♊ Gemini.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 18 October 2062 at 08:18 in ♈ Aries the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov